A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSRight is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThere is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPoverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSImmense 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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty for all; chains for none.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSome know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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