A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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