A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of 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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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 struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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