What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPeople might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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 man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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