You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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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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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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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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