I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThere is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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