We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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 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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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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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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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