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Frederick Douglass Quote - The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

Frederick Douglass

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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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Inspirational Knowledge Man One Liner Slave
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Crop Favor Freedom Ground Men Philosophy
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Broken Broken Heart Build Children Deep Men Repair Strong
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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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 on them.
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