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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Frederick Douglass

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 DOUGLASS

Ourselves People Respect
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Endurance Limitation Prescribe
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country District Government People
Immense 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.
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Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Allow Help Man
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Man Slave Time
A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Equality Intelligence Level One Liner
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Education Slave Value
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Ballot Box Daughter Education Knowledge School Son
I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Credit Master Respect Teacher

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