My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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 soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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?
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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