Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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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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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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