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 DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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