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Action Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in…
- Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments…
- I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
- [...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at…
- Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and…
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