You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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