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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPraying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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