I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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