Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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 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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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 would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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