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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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Find 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.
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