The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPraying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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