A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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 battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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