Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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