Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOppression makes a wise man mad.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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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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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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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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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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