What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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