The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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