A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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