It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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 life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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