The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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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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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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