Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSI didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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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.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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One and God make a majority.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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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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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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