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.
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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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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 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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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