The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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