Tag: Frederick Douglass
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
Frederick Douglass
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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass
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That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
Frederick Douglass
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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.
Frederick Douglass
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
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Find 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.
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
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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