I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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