The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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 struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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