A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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