Quotes About Independence

I live in my own place. I never copied anybody, not even half. And at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself, I laugh.

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July?

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that would bury the Government and your liberty in the same hopeless grave. This is your golden opportunity.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free.

If a slave has a bad master, his ambition is to get a better; when he gets a better, he aspires to have the best; and when he gets the best, he aspires to be his own master.

I had reached the point, at which I was not afraid to die. This spirit made me a Freeman in fact, while I remained a slave in form,

Bir kez okumay? öÄŸrendikten sonra sonsuza dek özgür olacaks?n?z.

The name given me by my mother was, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. I, however, had dispensed with the two middle names long before I left Maryland so that I was generally known by the name of Frederick Bailey.

Your faculties remained yours, and mine became useful to their rightful owner.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

One you learn to READ, you will be forever free

Once you learn to read, you'll free forever.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. --Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

love the natural, peaceful, and independent Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

Odat? ce înveÅ£i s? citeÅŸti vei fi liber pentru totdeauna

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.