Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIntelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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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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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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