It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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