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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free 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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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 man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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 soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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