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Frederick Douglass Quote - If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Frederick Douglass

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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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People
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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Attention Men Practical Theory Thinking Value Worth
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Endurance Limitation Prescribe
What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Encouragement Motivational One Liner Possible
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong
The opposite of compromise is character.
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Character Compromise One Liner Opposite
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Exertion Important Inspirational Opportunity
A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Man One Liner Work
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Black Lives Matter Color Equality Mind Skin
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Cease Existence Liberty Meaning Opinion Right
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
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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Credit Master Respect Teacher
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Freedom Roads Seldom Travel
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Man Slave Time
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
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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Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Die Inspirational Kill One Liner Run Stand
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Ballot Box Daughter Education Knowledge School Son
Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Expectation Justice Sing Slave Work
One and God make a majority.
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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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