A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNo man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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