It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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 District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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