I had as well be killed running as die standing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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One and God make a majority.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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