Oppression makes a wise man mad.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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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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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 is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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