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.
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 more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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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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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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