What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat is possible for me is possible for you.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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