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Own Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
- 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…
- 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…
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur…
- 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.
- 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…
- A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
- I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get…
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