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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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One and God make a majority.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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