My hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNeither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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One and God make a majority.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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