The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOur destiny is largely in our hands.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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