"If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes……" — Frederick Douglass
"If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote."
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Frederick Douglass
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171 Quotes by Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass has 171 quotes on this site.
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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.…
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The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of…
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need…
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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…
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I…
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than…
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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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