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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNeither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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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.
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