It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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