I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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