Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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 I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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