A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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 destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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