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13 Quotes for 'Frederick Douglass' in the Database.
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Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.
Topic: Agitation
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Topic: Calamity
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Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.
Topic: Contentment
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Topic: Learning
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Topic: Men and Women
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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.
Topic: Politics / Government
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A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Topic: Racism
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Topic: Society
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If there is no struggle there is no progress.
Topic: Society
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Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
Topic: Society
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