Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNature 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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