No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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