The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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