The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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