You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMy hopes were never brighter than now.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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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.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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