The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSMy hopes were never brighter than now.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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