Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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.
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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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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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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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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 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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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