To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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