Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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