We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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