My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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