If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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