Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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