Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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