The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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One and God make a majority.
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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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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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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 prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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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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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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