You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThere 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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