No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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