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Frederick Douglass Quote - Our destiny is largely in our hands.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

Frederick Douglass

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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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