A man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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