I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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