Frederick Douglass Quotes

1817-1895, American Abolitionist, Journalist
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“One and God make a majority.”
God
“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”
Gentlemen
“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.”
Past
“Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”
Right and Rightness
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
Oppression