I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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