Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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