People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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One and God make a majority.
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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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