I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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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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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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