It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSAt a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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