You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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