The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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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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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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