The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
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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.
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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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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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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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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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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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