Frederick Douglass Quotes About Literature
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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.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
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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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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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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
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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.
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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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I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
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Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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