A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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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 would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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