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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducation means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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