What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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