Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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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 battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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