I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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