Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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