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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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