The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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