A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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