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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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