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.
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’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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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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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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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.
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