I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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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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One and God make a majority.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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