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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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