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.
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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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