What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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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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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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