A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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