A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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One and God make a majority.
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