I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe opposite of compromise is character.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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