The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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