At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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