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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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 had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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