Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEducation 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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