Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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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.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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