A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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