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Frederick Douglass Quote - My hopes were never brighter than now.

My hopes were never brighter than now.

Frederick Douglass

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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Earthquake Fire Gentle Inspirational Light Shower Storm
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Die Inspirational Kill One Liner Run Stand
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Certain People Work World
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Black Lives Matter Color Equality Mind Skin
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
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.
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Array Character Community Cover Destiny Glory Majestic Shame Share
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Inspirational Right Unite Wrong
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Cease Existence Liberty Meaning Opinion Right
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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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
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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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
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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Attention Men Practical Theory Thinking Value Worth
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Future Inspirational Let Go Past Present
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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Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Beautiful Deep Place Proper Time Truth
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
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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Country Greatness Heart Man Patience Strong Sympathy
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Constitution Document Glorious Liberty
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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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Family Team Work Togetherness Unite
I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Credit Master Respect Teacher
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Inspirational One Liner Progress Struggle
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
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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Color Father Sex Truth
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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Capacity Enjoyment Exertion Extend Honor Man Woman
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny

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