It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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