What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPoverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Neither 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.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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