The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI had as well be killed running as die standing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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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 didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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