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.
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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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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