The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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