The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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