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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNo man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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