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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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