Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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