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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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One and God make a majority.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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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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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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