I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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