We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMy hopes were never brighter than now.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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