A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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 slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free 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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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