The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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