I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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