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“First of all, Doctor, I don’t quite know what you mean by ‘democratic principles.’ Are you referring to the appalling lack of discipline and self-control I’ve observed on this station? The exaltation of individual freedom above the welfare of the group? The fact that the ‘first among equals’ in democratic society seem to get preference and privilege?”

— Andrew J. Robinson

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Andrew J. Robinson Quote: “First of all, Doctor, I don’t quite know what you mean by ‘democratic principles.’ Are you referring to the appalling lack of discipline and self-control I’ve observed on this station? The exaltation of individual freedom above the welfare of the group? The fact that the ‘first among equals’ in democratic society seem to get preference and privilege?”

“First of all, Doctor, I don’t quite know what you mean by ‘democratic principles.’ Are you referring to the appalling lack of discipline and self-control I’ve observed on this station? The exaltation of individual freedom above the welfare of the group? The fact that the ‘first among equals’ in democratic society seem to get preference and privilege?”

— Andrew J. Robinson

Andrew J. Robinson Quote: “First of all, Doctor, I don’t quite know what you mean by ‘democratic principles.’ Are you referring to the appalling lack of discipline and self-control I’ve observed on this station? The exaltation of individual freedom above the welfare of the group? The fact that the ‘first among equals’ in democratic society seem to get preference and privilege?”

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— Frederick Douglass

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— Frederick Douglass

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7. “Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.”

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8. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

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9. “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

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11. “A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”

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13. “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”

— Frederick Douglass

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14. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

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15. “I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.”

— Frederick Douglass

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16. “A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”

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17. “The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”

— Frederick Douglass

18. “I had as well be killed running as die standing.”

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19. “The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”

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20. “It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”

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21. “People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”

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22. “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.”

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23. “The opposite of compromise is character.”

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24. “What to the Slave is the 4th of July.”

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25. “In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can’t expect that you’re going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.”

— Frederick Douglass

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26. “One and God make a majority.”

— Frederick Douglass

27. “A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.”

— Frederick Douglass

28. “Our destiny is largely in our hands.”

— Frederick Douglass

29. “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”

— Frederick Douglass

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30. “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”

— Frederick Douglass

31. “Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.”

— Frederick Douglass

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32. “What is possible for me is possible for you.”

— Frederick Douglass

33. “Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.”

— Frederick Douglass

34. “Some know the value of education by having it. I know it’s value by not having it.”

— Frederick Douglass

35. “We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.”

— Frederick Douglass

36. “I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.”

— Frederick Douglass

37. “When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.”

— Frederick Douglass

38. “Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.”

— Frederick Douglass

39. “No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty.”

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40. “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”

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41. “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

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44. “The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.”

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