A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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