Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMan’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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