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 DOUGLASSFind 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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