What is possible for me is possible for you.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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 ballot is the only safety.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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