Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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