Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty for all; chains for none.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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