Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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 is worked on by what he works on.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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 ballot is the only safety.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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