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?
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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