Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPeople might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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 great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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