The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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 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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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 I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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