A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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I 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.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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