What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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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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