Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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A 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.
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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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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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One and God make a majority.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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