I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI had as well be killed running as die standing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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