The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Fortune 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.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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