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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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 thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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