A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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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 by which men can only be made free.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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