"A man's character always takes its hue, more……" — Frederick Douglass
"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him."
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Frederick Douglass
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171 Quotes by Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass has 171 quotes on this site.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak.…
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The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of…
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need…
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They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all…
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I…
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than…
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Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it…
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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
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But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we…
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It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.
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A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them
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The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.
— Angeles Arrien
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It always takes two. There's the speaker and the listener, you and the audience. You've worked long hours and it…
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The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes.…
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The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself.
— Ray Lewis
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.
— John Ortberg
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
— Karl Kraus
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