A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOur 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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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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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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