Immense 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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSRight is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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