It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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 thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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