The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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 ballot is the only safety.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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.
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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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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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