The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhere 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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