I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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 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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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