The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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