What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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