He who would be free must strike the first blow.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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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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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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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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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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