You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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