Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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