Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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