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.
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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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