What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducation means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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