The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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One and God make a majority.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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