Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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