The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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