Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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 man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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