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Inspirational Quotes by Frederick Douglass
- Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
- ... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
- Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
- What is possible for me is possible for you.
- 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…
- Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere
- We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!
- The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
- Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.
- If there's no struggle, there's no progress.
- It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
- He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.
- Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
- The opposite of compromise is character.
- Our destiny is largely in our hands.
- Once you read, you will be free forever.
- Right is of no sex, truth is of no color,
- The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
- What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
- It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.
- I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
- I hear the mournful wail of millions!
- Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
- It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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