The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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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 thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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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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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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