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.
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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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One and God make a majority.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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