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?
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhere justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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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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