The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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One and God make a majority.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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