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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.
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Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.
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Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.
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The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.
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Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
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To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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