Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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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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