Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNature 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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