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 DOUGLASSFind 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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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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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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