A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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