I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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 man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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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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