A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNo man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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