What is possible for me is possible for you.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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You have to take power. No one gives 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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