It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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