A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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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 life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Educate 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.
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