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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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