Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSNeither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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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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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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