A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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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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Educate 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.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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