Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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