The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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