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Frederick Douglass Quote - Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.

Frederick Douglass

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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Degrade Man One Liner Soul
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Cease Existence Liberty Meaning Opinion Right
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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Country Earth People Politics World
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Brotherhood Confusion Joy Man National Smile Sorrow Tears Tongue
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
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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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Amount Hand Man Time
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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Ability Application Consistency Done Greatness Man Need Power Proper
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Freedom Roads Seldom Travel
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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Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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