If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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