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 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 not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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 little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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