I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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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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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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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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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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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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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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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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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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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