Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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 smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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