A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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