The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSome know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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