He who would be free must strike the first blow.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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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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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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One and God make a majority.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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