A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSImmense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Education 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.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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