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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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