Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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Find 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.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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