What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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