Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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One and God make a majority.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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