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 DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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 marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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