I had as well be killed running as die standing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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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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