Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat is possible for me is possible for you.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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