The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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