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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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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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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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