A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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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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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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 had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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 silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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