I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat is possible for me is possible for you.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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