The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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