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 woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI had as well be killed running as die standing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt 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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOur 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 DOUGLASSA man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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