What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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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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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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