The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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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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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