Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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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 gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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One and God make a majority.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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