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Frederick Douglass Quote - The opposite of compromise is character.

The opposite of compromise is character.

Frederick Douglass

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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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