Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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