A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducation means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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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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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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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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