If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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