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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat is possible for me is possible for you.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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