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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Country District Government People
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
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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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
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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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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