A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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