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?
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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 man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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