A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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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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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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