A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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