I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMy hopes were never brighter than now.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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