There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty for all; chains for none.
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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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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