Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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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 little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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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 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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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