Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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 soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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