The opposite of compromise is character.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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