I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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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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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 District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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