I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMan’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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