To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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