A man is worked on by what he works on.
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 silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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One and God make a majority.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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