What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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The ballot is the only safety.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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 life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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.
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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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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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