Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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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 struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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