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Social Justice Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
- We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
- If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
- 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…
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- 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.
- The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
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