A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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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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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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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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