A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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