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.
More Quotes from Frederick Douglass:
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.Frederick Douglass
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.
Frederick Douglass
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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.
Frederick Douglass
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass
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