What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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It 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.
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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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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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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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