Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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