Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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 land.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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 my own abhorrence.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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