He who would be free must strike the first blow.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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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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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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