You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOne and God make a majority.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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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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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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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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