A man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSAt a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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 will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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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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