Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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