Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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 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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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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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