What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSInterpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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 slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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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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