Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Nature 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.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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