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 DOUGLASSThe man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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