Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPraying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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One and God make a majority.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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