A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Where 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.
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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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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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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