He who would be free must strike the first blow.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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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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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Education 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.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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