I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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