The opposite of compromise is character.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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One and God make a majority.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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