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 DOUGLASSWe are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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 thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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