A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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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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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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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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