What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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