Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHe who would be free must strike the first blow.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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