Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNature 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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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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