Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSLiberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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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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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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