I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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.
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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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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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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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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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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