48 ordspråk av Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . . Only as we rise . . . do we encounter opposition.
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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.
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Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress
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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
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I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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