The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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 prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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