A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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