The opposite of compromise is character.
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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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