Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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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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