It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhere 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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