Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOppression makes a wise man mad.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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