It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMan’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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 whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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 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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