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Frederick Douglass Quote - Our destiny is largely in our hands.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

Frederick Douglass

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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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