Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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 prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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