A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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