Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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 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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To 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.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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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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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be 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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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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