It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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