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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty for all; chains for none.
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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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