Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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Nature 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.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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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 opposite of compromise is character.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Where 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.
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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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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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 man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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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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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