Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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