Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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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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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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