A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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One and God make a majority.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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