A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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One and God make a majority.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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 silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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