Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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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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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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