A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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 prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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