Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSImmense 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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