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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOur 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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