Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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 soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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