Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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 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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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