#Frederick Douglass

Pictures, images, and other symbolical representations speak to the imagination. The mighty fortress of the human heart

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All wishes, all aspirations, all hopes, all fears, all doubts, all determinations grow stronger and stronger precisely

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Personal independence is a virtue and it is the soul out of which comes the sturdiest manhood. But there can be no

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It’s easier to build strong children then repair broken men.

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Poets, prophets, and reformers are all picture-makers — and this ability is the secret of their power and of their

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Reason is exalted and called Godlike, and sometimes accorded the highest place among human faculties; but grand and wonderful

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Man is man the world over. This fact is affirmed and admitted in any effort to deny it. The sentiments we exhibit, whether

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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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All good causes are mutually helpful. The benefits accruing from this movement for the equal rights of woman are not confined

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Human nature shudders, and turns pale at its presence, and flies from it as from a den of lions, a nest of scorpions, or an

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel

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Men have their choice in this world. They can be angels, or they may be demons.

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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. … For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it

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Material progress may for a time be separated from moral progress. But the two cannot be permanently divorced.

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I fully believe in the dignity of all needful labor. All honest effort to better human conditions is entitled to respect.

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