The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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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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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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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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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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One and God make a majority.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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