The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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