Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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