A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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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