What is possible for me is possible for you.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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