You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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If there is no struggle, there is 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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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