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 DOUGLASSA slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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