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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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