The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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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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One and God make a majority.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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