Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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.
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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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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 man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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