The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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 man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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