Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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 struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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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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