What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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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