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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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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 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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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Color Father Sex Truth
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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Against Conscience God Majority Man Universe
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Blood Man Safety Slave
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Ourselves People Respect

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