The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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