The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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 know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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