One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSInterpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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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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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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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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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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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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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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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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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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