A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNeither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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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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