Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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 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 know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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 great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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