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Frederick Douglass Quote - The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

Frederick Douglass

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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Crop Favor Freedom Ground Men Philosophy
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Broken Broken Heart Build Children Deep Men Repair Strong
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Acceptance General Meet Resistance Slow Truth
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Justice One Liner Poor Rule
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Claim Freedom Men Politics Respect Rights Women Women Rights
The opposite of compromise is character.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Character Compromise One Liner Opposite
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
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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Ability Application Consistency Done Greatness Man Need Power Proper
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Business Inspirational Progress Struggle
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Box Man Rights
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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Carve Circumstance Man Work
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Blood Man Safety Slave

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