Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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 do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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