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 DOUGLASSMy hopes were never brighter than now.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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