Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI had as well be killed running as die standing.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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