A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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