If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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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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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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