The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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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 know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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