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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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