Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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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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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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