You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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