Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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