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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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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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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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One and God make a majority.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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