We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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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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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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