Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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 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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