The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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