Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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