What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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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.
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