It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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