Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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