We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHe who would be free must strike the first blow.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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