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?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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