If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Where 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.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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