Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSImmense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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