Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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 didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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One and God make a majority.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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