Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe ballot is the only safety.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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