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Frederick Douglass

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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Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
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
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
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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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
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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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Box Man Rights
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Country Earth People Politics World
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
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.
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False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Appearance Disappear Forever Freedom
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Black Lives Matter Color Equality Mind Skin
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
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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Country District Government People

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