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

Frederick Douglass

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

Finding Slave Want
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Exertion Important Inspirational Opportunity
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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Black Lives Matter Constitution Country Honor People Problem
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Character Color Man
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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Future Inspirational Let Go Past Present
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Advocate Cause Humanity Justice Man
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Amount Hand Man Time
Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Air Earth Existence Nature Perfection She Spiritual Women Power
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Rights Speech Suppress Violation Wrong
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Ballot Box Daughter Education Knowledge School Son
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Certain People Work World
Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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Array Character Community Cover Destiny Glory Majestic Shame Share
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Humanity Race Rights Superior
Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Inspirational One Liner Progress Struggle

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

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