The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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 life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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