It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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