A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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