Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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