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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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One and God make a majority.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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