All 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.
Frederick Douglass
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I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass in
Change
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass
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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.
Frederick Douglass
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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.
Frederick Douglass in
Nature
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass
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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.
Frederick Douglass
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
Frederick Douglass
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass
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