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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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