It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat is possible for me is possible for you.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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