A man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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