I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHe who would be free must strike the first blow.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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