Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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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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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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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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 silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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