To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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