"In a composite nation like ours, as before……" — Frederick Douglass
"In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny."
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171 Quotes by Frederick Douglass
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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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