Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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