The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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