A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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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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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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.
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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?
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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