The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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