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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSPoverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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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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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Neither 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.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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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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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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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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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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