Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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