A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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