Frederick Douglass Short Quotes

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Men do not love those who remind them of their sins.

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It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

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You are freedom's swift-winged angels, that fly around the world.

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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

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Shoot down the Confederacy and uphold the flag; the American flag.

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The destiny of the colored American … is the destiny of America.

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The Republican Party is the ship and all else is the sea around us.

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I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.

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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

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In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

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They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

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Detraction paves the way for the very perfections which it doubts and denies.

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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

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Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

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Despite of it all, the Negro remains … cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

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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 Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

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Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

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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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I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

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Jefferson was not ashamed to call the black man his brother and to address him as a gentleman.

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The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed.

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Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

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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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