Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSome know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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 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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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