The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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 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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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