At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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 man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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