Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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