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Quotes by Frederick Douglass in Men category:
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"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." 3.8000 average rating  
"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." 4.7500 average rating  
"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me." 4.6364 average rating