Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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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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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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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