You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhere 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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