A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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 more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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