Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFreedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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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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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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