A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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 man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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