Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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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 prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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