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Frederick Douglass Quote - At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Frederick Douglass

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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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 seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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