It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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