Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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