We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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