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Frederick Douglass Quote - A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

Frederick Douglass

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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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Character Color Man
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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Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
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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False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Black Lives Matter Justice Pity Sympathy
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Climb Diversity Height Judgment Justice Rise
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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Ourselves People Respect
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Humanity Race Rights Superior
A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Capacity Enjoyment Exertion Extend Honor Man Woman
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Box Man Rights
The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Country Destiny
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Crop Favor Freedom Ground Men Philosophy
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Man One Liner Work

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