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Frederick Douglass Quote - I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Frederick Douglass

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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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Hard Time Moral Physical Struggle
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Argument Convince Iron Need Time
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Die Inspirational Kill One Liner Run Stand
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Justice One Liner Poor Rule
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Business Inspirational Progress Struggle
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Blow Freedom Strike
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Brother Freedom Shame Slave
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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False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
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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Black Lives Matter Constitution Country Honor People Problem
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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Claim Freedom Men Politics Respect Rights Women Women Rights
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Discourage Encounter Future Hope Prediction Resistance
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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Chain Freedom Independence
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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Claim Earn History Human Liberty Progress Show
You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Giving Inspirational One Liner Power
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Motivational Success Words Work
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Amount Hand Man Time
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Slave Wait
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Humanity Race Rights Superior
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Heart Represent Sing Slave Sorrow Tears Unhappy
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Future Inspirational Let Go Past Present
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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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
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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Injustice Measure People Quiet Wrong

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