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Other Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education;…
- No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I…
- 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…
- E have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for…
- 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…
- I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of…
- 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.
- 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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- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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