I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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