The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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 didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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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.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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