Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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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 more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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