I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThose who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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 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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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