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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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