What is possible for me is possible for you.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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 there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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