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 DOUGLASSI 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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 thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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