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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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 will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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