At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSInterpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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 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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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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