A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty for all; chains for none.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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