I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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 man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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 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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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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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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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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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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