It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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