A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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 slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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