I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSBe not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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 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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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