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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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 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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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