Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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 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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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One and God make a majority.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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