He who would be free must strike the first blow.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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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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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 better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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