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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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