I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPraying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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One and God make a majority.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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