We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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 who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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