What is possible for me is possible for you.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhere justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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