A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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