Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOppression makes a wise man mad.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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 life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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 know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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