Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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