What is possible for me is possible for you.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPoverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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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 great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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