Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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