Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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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 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 mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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