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?
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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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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