It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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 slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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