A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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