The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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