A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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 man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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