Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducate 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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