The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe ballot is the only safety.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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