Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPraying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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 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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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