Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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