Oppression makes a wise man mad.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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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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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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