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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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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 have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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