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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.

Frederick Douglass

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Blood Man Safety Slave
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Freedom Party Progress Republic
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Education Freedom Glorious Liberty Man Truth Uplift
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Carve Circumstance Man Work
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Character Color Man
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Education Slave Value
Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Equality Intelligence Level One Liner
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Brother Freedom Shame Slave
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Box Man Rights
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Inspirational Knowledge Man One Liner Slave
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

One Liner Slave
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle

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