Frederick Douglass Quotes


35 Frederick Douglass quotes:



"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck"
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"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me"
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"The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from social degradation to the place of common equality with all other varieties of men"
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"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery."
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"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
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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 didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted."
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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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"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me."
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"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."
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"Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people."
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"I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave."
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"What to the Slave is the 4th of July."
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"When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind."
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"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."
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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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"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 little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."
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"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."
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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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