Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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One and God make a majority.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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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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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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 man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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