It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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