Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWe may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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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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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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The opposite of compromise is character.
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