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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI had as well be killed running as die standing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The 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.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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