Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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