We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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 prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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 soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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