It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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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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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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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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 slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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 had as well be killed running as die standing.
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