To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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