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 DOUGLASSThe destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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One and God make a majority.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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 life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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