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Freedom Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
- I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall....
- Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.
- John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun.…
- Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
- Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
- The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every…
- Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive…
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of…
- 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…
- People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
- Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
- The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
- Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
- Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without…
- The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
- Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
- I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased…
- Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
- Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it.…
- I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire…
- Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.…
- Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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