The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPraying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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 know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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