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Liberty Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- ... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
- Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
- What is possible for me is possible for you.
- I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall....
- 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…
- Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light…
- No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in…
- One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to…
- Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet…
- The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the…
- Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons…
- The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
- No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
- Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
- The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the…
- Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.…
- I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any…
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