Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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