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Frederick Douglass Quote - Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.

Frederick Douglass

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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Dangerous Indeed Knowledge Learning People Slave
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Gentleman Insult Man
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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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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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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Darkness Mental Moral Necessary Possible Power Reason Slave Vision
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Finding Slave Want
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Advocate Cause Humanity Justice Man
A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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Carve Circumstance Man Work
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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One Liner Slave
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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Black Black Lives Matter Happiness Man Purchase White
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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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
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Degrade Man One Liner Soul
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Discourage Encounter Future Hope Prediction Resistance

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