We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
Frederick DouglassI am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick DouglassSome know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
Frederick DouglassIn this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.
Frederick Douglass