Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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 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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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