A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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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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