You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked on by what he works on.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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