To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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