A man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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 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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The ballot is the only safety.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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