The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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 man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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