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 didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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