Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSAt a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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