The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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.
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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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