The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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