A man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMy hopes were never brighter than now.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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Education 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.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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