No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThose who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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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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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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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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