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Frederick Douglass Quote - A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

Frederick Douglass

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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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