People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNature 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.
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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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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 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 am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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