I had as well be killed running as die standing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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