You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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