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.
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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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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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