Frederick Douglass Quotes About Social Justice
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
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You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.
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They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling in the nation must be quickened, the conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed: and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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