Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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 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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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 woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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