We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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One and God make a majority.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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