It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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