Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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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 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 smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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One and God make a majority.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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