If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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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 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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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