Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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 gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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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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