I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA man is worked on by what he works on.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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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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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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