Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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