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.
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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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The 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.
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