He who would be free must strike the first blow.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhere justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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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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