I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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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 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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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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 to take power. No one gives it.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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