Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThose who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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