A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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