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- Herausgeber: BookRix
- Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
- Sprache: Englisch
This book is a collection of 65 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Frederick Douglass: "Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude." "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong." "The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness." "The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart" "The soul that is within me no man can degrade." "The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America."
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
Frederick Douglass
His Words
BookRix GmbH & Co. KG80331 MunichQuotes
“Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.”
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
“The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.”
“The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart”
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
“The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.”
“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”
“A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,—and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women,—before he is ready to lay the first stone of his anti-slavery life.”
“A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man”
“Allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is Work! Work!! Work!!! Work!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put
