Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and…
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The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and…
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They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
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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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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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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the…
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Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall....
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The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
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Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,…
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The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it…
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Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand…
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means…
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin....
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