Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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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 ballot is the only safety.
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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 white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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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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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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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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