Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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