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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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 know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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