I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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