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Frederick Douglass Quote - 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.

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.

Frederick Douglass

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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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