Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNature 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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 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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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