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Frederick Douglass Quote - The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.

The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.

Frederick Douglass

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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Character Color Man
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Ability Application Consistency Done Greatness Man Need Power Proper
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
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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Ourselves People Respect
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
One and God make a majority.
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God Majority One Liner
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Cease Existence Liberty Meaning Opinion Right
Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Color Father Sex Truth
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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Country Greatness Heart Man Patience Strong Sympathy
My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Bright Hope Morning One Liner Positive
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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Color Constitution Country Degard Evil Ignorance People Poverty
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake

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