Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free 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 didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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