I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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