Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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 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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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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