"A gentleman will not insult me, and no……" — Frederick Douglass
"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me."
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Frederick Douglass
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171 Quotes by Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass has 171 quotes on this site.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . 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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You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak.…
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The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of…
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need…
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They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all…
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I…
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than…
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Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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More Comeback Quotes
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I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film.…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against…
— James A. Baldwin
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
— Edward Abbey
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Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.
— Steven Adler
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.
— John Boehner
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
— Sitting Bull
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We must return to nature and nature's god.
— Luther Burbank
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It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the…
— Julie Burchill
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