Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSRight is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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