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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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