A man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOppression makes a wise man mad.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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