At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSAt a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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