What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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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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