"I know of no rights of race superior……" — Frederick Douglass
"I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity."
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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 Humanity Quotes
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Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
— Neil Armstrong
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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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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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
— Francis of Assisi
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all…
— Nancy Astor
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We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves…
— David Attenborough
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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and…
— Lee Atwater
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the…
— Irving Babbitt
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against…
— Irving Babbitt
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