A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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 man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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