Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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