I had as well be killed running as die standing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSImmense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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