Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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 do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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