Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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