The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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