Tag: Frederick Douglass
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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.
Frederick Douglass
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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