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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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One and God make a majority.
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