A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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 more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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