Oppression makes a wise man mad.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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