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.
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 gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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