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Frederick Douglass Quote - 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?

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?

Frederick Douglass

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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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Amount Hand Man Time
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Crop Favor Freedom Ground Men Philosophy
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Inspirational One Liner Progress Struggle
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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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Color Constitution Country Degard Evil Ignorance People Poverty
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Blood Man Safety Slave
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Book Reading Slave
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait
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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