I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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