Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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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 more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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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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