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 DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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One and God make a majority.
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