The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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One and God make a majority.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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