It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPoverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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