A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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