We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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