The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS