I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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One and God make a majority.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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