Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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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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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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