I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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