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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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.
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFortune 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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducate 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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA 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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPoverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNo man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPraying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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