My hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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