The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a 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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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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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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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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