Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPraying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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