At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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