The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSWhat I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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.
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