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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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 is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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 there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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