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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.

Frederick Douglass

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Ballot One Liner Safety
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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Capacity Enjoyment Exertion Extend Honor Man Woman
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Allow Help Man
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Slave Wait
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Ability Application Consistency Done Greatness Man Need Power Proper
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

One Liner Slave
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Future Inspirational Let Go Past Present
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 DOUGLASS

People
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Honesty Life Nation Secure Truth
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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Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Lives Matter Constitution Country Honor People Problem
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Certain People Work World

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