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Only Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,…
- 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…
- There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having muskets…
- The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single word…
- The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it.…
- The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
- We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
- 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,…
- I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased…
- [...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient…
- I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire…
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