A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no 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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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 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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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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