A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
More Quotes from Frederick Douglass:
You have seen how a man was made a slave you shall see how a slave was made a man.Frederick Douglass
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass
In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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