I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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