A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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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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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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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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