A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSRight is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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