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One Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is…
- They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on…
- We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!
- One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to…
- To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as…
- Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but…
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may…
- The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the…
- 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…
- One and God make a majority.
- Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without…
- This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must…
- I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed,…
- I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased…
- 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…
- [...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient…
- Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.…
- I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the…
- Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and…
- Where justice is denied, wherepoverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and whereany one class is made to feel that society is in an organizedconspiracy to…
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