Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass: A little learning,...

Frederick Douglass: A little learning,...

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any...

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Frederick Douglass: A man's character...

Frederick Douglass: A man's character...

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about...

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Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing...

Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing...

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will . . .

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Frederick Douglass: Slaves were expected...

Frederick Douglass: Slaves were expected...

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or...

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Frederick Douglass: A gentleman will...

Frederick Douglass: A gentleman will...

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

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Frederick Douglass: Find out just...

Frederick Douglass: Find out just...

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which...

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Frederick Douglass: Man's greatness consists...

Frederick Douglass: Man's greatness consists...

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be...

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Frederick Douglass: Those who profess...

Frederick Douglass: Those who profess...

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want rain without thunder and...

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Frederick Douglass: Be not discouraged....

Frederick Douglass: Be not discouraged....

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . . Only as we...

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Frederick Douglass: I prefer to...

Frederick Douglass: I prefer to...

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to...

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Frederick Douglass: We have to...

Frederick Douglass: We have to...

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

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Frederick Douglass: Truth is proper...

Frederick Douglass: Truth is proper...

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

Source: In Famous...

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Frederick Douglass: We had talked...

Frederick Douglass: We had talked...

We had talked long enough; we were now ready to move; if not now, we never should be; and if we did not intend to move...

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Frederick Douglass: [W]henever my condition...

Frederick Douglass: [W]henever my condition...

[W]henever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be...

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Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing...

Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing...

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices...

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Frederick Douglass: Where justice is...

Frederick Douglass: Where justice is...

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel...

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Frederick Douglass: The mind does...

Frederick Douglass: The mind does...

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin....

Source: In Famous Black...

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Frederick Douglass: We are one,...

Frederick Douglass: We are one,...

We are one, our cause is one, and we must help each other; if we are to succeed.

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Frederick Douglass: Men may not...

Frederick Douglass: Men may not...

Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they...

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Frederick Douglass: If there is...

Frederick Douglass: If there is...

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation, are men...

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