I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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